Is climate change research holding back advances in weather forecasting? | JunkScience.com

Mass contends that the Federal emphasis on long-term climate prediction is a mistake, and that improving our short-term weather forecasts should be a much higher priority.

- Bishop Hill blog - Jeff Masters on Mann and PCA

So the world's leading expert on principal components analysis says that data analysed through Mann's "modern-centring convention" are uninterpretable. They are meaningless. Dr Masters says, nevertheless, that Mann has given one of the best explanations of the technique he has ever seen.

Perhaps Dr Masters needs to find himself a friendly statistician.

UK attracts CCS funding interest from 16 bidders | JunkScience.com

Britain’s energy ministry has registered interest from 16 bidders to enter its one-billion pound competition to fund one or more carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, the department said on Wednesday.  

The New Nostradamus of the North: The EU global warming mafia wants to punish Poland

Let us hope that the mess created by the failed euro currency and the increasingly negative EU growth numbers will make it easier for the Poles to stand by their views against the ever more desperate Brussels global warming mafia.